April 



■ Publication The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observa- 

 tory published Space for Women, a 20-page booklet en- 

 couraging young women to pursue careers in astronomy. 



April 



U Electronic Outreach With the introduction of" its 

 World Wide Web home page, the National Museum of 

 American Art expanded its effort to offer Internet 

 resources. The home page joined the museum's Gopher 

 site, which premiered in January. Offerings on the 

 award-winning World Wide Web site include an elec- 

 tronic tour of the "White House Collection of American 

 Crafts" exhibition and pages devoted to each of the 

 museum's special exhibitions. 



April 



■ Collections The move of more than 45,000 objects 

 from the old location of the National Museum of the 

 American Indian in New York City to the Research 

 Branch in the Bronx, New York, began. 



April 



■ Conference The Fourth International Conference on 

 Space Tether Systems was held at the Smithsonian with 

 the joint sponsorship of the Smithsonian Astrophysical 

 Observatory, the National Aeronautics and Space 

 Administration, and the Italian Space Agency. 



April 



■ Neic Membership Program The Center for Folklife Pro- 

 grams and Cultural Studies initiated Friends of the Fes- 

 tival, a group that will develop programs in support of 

 the Festival of American Folklife. 



April 



■ Exhibition Videos The Office of Telecommunications 

 completed six videos for the new "Exploring Marine 

 Ecosystems" exhibition at the National Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, giving visitors a close-up look at the work- 

 ings of various marine habitats. 



April 



■ Curriculum Development The National Science Re- 

 sources Center began nationally field-testing the prelim- 

 inary editions of Solids and Liquids and Comparing and 



Measuring, two first-grade units in the Science and 

 Technology fot Children hands-on science curriculum 

 program. 



April I 



■ Exhibition opening "On the River" opened at the 

 Freer Gallery of Art with a selection of 27 Chinese hand- 

 scrolls, album leaves, hanging scrolls, and fans from the 

 13th through 19th century depicting life along China's 

 waterways. 



April 3 



■ Agreement The Smithsonian Institution and Lancit 

 Media Productions Ltd. signed an agreement to jointly 

 develop a major television series for children ages 8 to 

 12 based on Smithsonian resources. 



April 4-July 14 



■ Exhibition "Giorgio Cavallon: A Signal Luminosity" 

 was presented at the Archives of American Art New 

 York Regional Center Gallery. Cavallon was an Italian- 

 born American artist who showed in New York with 

 the early abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock 

 and Willem de Kooning. The show highlighted his 

 quiet career of hard work and reticence in the face of the 

 explosive art world of his day. 



April 5 



■ Lecture The 1995 Rutherford J. Gettens Memorial 

 Lecture on technical studies of art was delivered by- 

 Noel Barnard, professor emeritus of East Asian art his- 

 tory at the Australian National University. His topic 

 was "Centrifugal and Centtipetal Aspects of the Devel- 

 opment of Metallurgy in China." 



April 6-8 



■ Meeting The Smithsonian National Boatd held its 

 spring meeting in Seattle, Washington. 



April J- August /J 



■ Exhibition "In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Porttaits of 

 James McNeill Whistler" was on view at the National 

 Portrait Gallery. The more than 80 works in the exhibi- 

 tion showed aspects of Whistler's public and private 

 lives, from his student days in Paris to his last years in 

 turn-of-the-century London. 



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